A jadeite necklace once owned by Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton was bought by the Cartier Collection at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong for 214 million Hong Kong dollars (US$27.6 million), a record price for jadeite jewellery. Read More »

Among the deep-pocketed collectors of Chinese antique ceramics, few pieces arouse as much excitement as the small Ming dynasty-era bowls commonly known as the “chicken cups” — named for the chickens painted on their sides. Only 19 are known to exist, and of those just four are in private hands, with the rest in museum collections. But one of those four will go up for sale on April 8 at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong and is estimated to fetch as much as US$38.5 million. Read More »